The 8 brokens : Chinese bapo painting
by
Berliner, Nancy Zeng, 1958-, author.
Title
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The 8 brokens : Chinese bapo painting
Eight brokens.
Chinese bapo painting.
Author
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Berliner, Nancy Zeng, 1958-, author.
ISBN
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9780878468317
Personal Author
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Berliner, Nancy Zeng, 1958-, author.
Physical Description
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159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
General Note
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Published in conjunction with the exhibition China's 8 Brokens : Puzzles of the Treasured Past, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from June 17 to October 29, 2017.
Includes index.
Abstract
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Developed during the mid-19th century in China, the bapo (or "eight brokens") painting genre combines ingeniously realistic depictions of antique documents, such as calligraphies, rubbings, paintings and pages from old books, sometimes alongside everyday contemporary ephemera, including advertisements, receipts and postmarked envelopes. The resulting, seemingly haphazard, overlapping compositions contain coded reflections on the decay of cultural traditions, or wishes for the recipient's good fortune. Widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, bapo was never popular with the upper echelons of the Chinese art world, and as a result was never recorded in art-history texts or mentioned by cultural critics. It became a lost branch of Chinese art, almost completely forgotten for the past 60 years.0This book explores the origins of bapo in Chinese visual culture and traces how it blossomed into an intriguing and inventive tradition in the hands of many artists.
Subject Term
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Painting, Chinese -- Exhibitions.
Painting, Chinese -- History -- 19th century.
Added Corporate Author
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
Portion Title
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Chinese bapo painting.
Field 805
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npmlib 10802264 N7344.5 B37 B47 ysh
Library | Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Copy | Material Type | Status |
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NPM Library | N7344.5 B37 B47 2018 | 10802264 | 1 | B | *二館西文書一區 |